Luca Barbieri was an Italian painter of the late-

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...

and early-

Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

. He was born in

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. He was a pupil of

Alessandro Tiarini Alessandro Tiarini (20 March 1577 – 8 February 1668) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. Biography Alessandro Tiarini was born in Bologna. His mother died when he was a child, and he was raised by an aunt. Early on his fa ...

. He painted

quadratura Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective di sotto in sù and quadratura, is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, and other ...

, and, in conjunction with Francesco Carbone, who painted the figures. He flourished at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century. He is not to be confused with Ludovico Barbieri, a painter of

of the same period.

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* 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Bologna 16th-century births 17th-century deaths {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub